BP PLC

Financial Times: BP said it was selling its stake in the Sean natural gasfield in the UK North Sea to SSE for $228 million in cash

Bloomberg: OAO Rosneft asked a Siberian court to wait before dropping a $3 billion lawsuit brought against BP by a minority shareholder in OAO TNK-BP Holding

RT: Rosneft is faced with raising $45 billion to finance Russia’s largest deal to buy TNK-BP and is now looking to raise part of the funds through future oil export sales to major world traders like Shell and Total

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

Reuters: US health regulators have approved a new four-strain seasonal influenza vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline, the company said on Monday

The PharmaLetter: Australia’s Mayne Pharma Group has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Kapanol and related assets in Australia from GlaxoSmithKline for a total consideration of up to $14.7 million

MarketWatch: GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday that ViiV Healthcare has submitted regulatory applications in the EU, the US and Canada for the investigational integrase inhibitor dolutegravir for the treatment of HIVinfection in adults and adolescents

Royal Dutch Shell Plc

4-traders: Rolls-Royce Holdings said on Monday it has won a contract to supply water jets to power Marine Alutech Oy Ab's new Watercat M18 AMC high speed troop transport craft, that are currently under construction for the Finnish Navy

Platts: Shell on Monday said it had awarded contracts to four indigenous Nigerian companies to carry out fresh studies into hydrocarbon deposits in the company's onshore assets in the eastern division of the Niger Delta

Houston Business Journal: During the two years since the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Shell has given some thought to acquiring the embattled BP, a German newspaper has reported